Do ever feel like you just want to be needed? Somedays I just feel useless as a wife, mother, friend, etc. I just want to do all I can for my family and hope that they know that.
This week I had the opportunity to take meals over to some friends and it made me feel so good, to actually help. Especially now, all I want to do is help someone. It was just so nice to have help when I was sick and to know that the people that helped me wanted to be there and wanted to help me. There is nothing worse than feeling like a burden.
I can't tell you how good it feels to have someone visit you in the hospital (at least for me) Just to know that people took time out of their day to see me and make sure I was ok, really meant alot. While I was in the hospital I had many hours to sit alone, so when I had visitors it meant alot.
I remember waking up from surgery and my husband, parents and sister were waiting for me. And even though I got news I didn't really like, I was glad to have someone there to be there for me. And this was like 2 am. Then the next day my sister came and sat with me, I can't tell you what we talked about but I remember she was there. Then when she had to go to work, my mom came and stayed with me for quite awhile. I was half asleep when she got there and I think I slept most of the time she was there. But knowing she was there was really comforting.
I am not writing this to make people feel bad. These are just my feeling.
6 comments:
yup! i'm a fan of visitors too. just stay with me. chat, hang out, spend time. the hours you sit waiting alone suck. been there done that.
i recall a totally awesome new years eve bash that wasn't mentioned!! ;)
Thanks for your offers to help me and my family this week. I really appreciate it!
You are a very lucky woman to have visitors. I spend three month in the hospital and my brother never came to see me. He is the only relative I have left everyone else died on me
I hope you feel better soon, dear. I can relate to a lot of your posts. :)
Read both your posts. Isn't it amazing how doctors are so itchy to remove your gall bladder so quickly before finding out the real cause. I have 'sludge' and a doctor friend of mine said you can live a perfectly normal life with a stone or sludge - just tweak the diet a bit. But they wanted to take mine out so quickly when all the while ignoring the fact that I had a bleeding ulcer which was found on the endoscopy. The surgeon was like, "Oh, ok, we just wanted to cut your gall bladder out for a 'process of elimination'." Nice... Anyway, I hope you recover and that you're feeling better. You're very lucky people are visiting! It's nice to feel loved... you're very fortunate! :)
Happy Holidays ~
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